How to reduce margin of pdf for printing two pages per page with big letters?

[jimo19236405]

Hello, I am using Acrobat Pro X on a Mac. I have been trying to print the pdf version of a book. When I printed two-page/page on a letter size paper, the letters became very small. I scaled up and parts of the pages got cropped off. I noticed that there are still a lot of empty area in the margins. I have been trying to reduce the margins so that I can fit two pages on a page with comfortable letter size. I have spent hours trying various parameters without success. Could you please help?

[Abambo · Accepted solution]

If the file has big margins that are the same on each page, you can crop the pages. Acrobat XI Help | Crop PDF pages

[jimo19236405]

It is working. Thank you very much.

[Stephen28351389dlkx]

My question is, why is it even necessary to trim out the margins in my source document to compensate for the extra margin that Adobe Reader adds in? Why does Adobe Reader even add extra margin? Why not print the margin in the source document, as specified in the source document? If you multiply the number of users having this problem times the time they spend compensatig for the extra margin, given the number on this forum asking how to fix it, how many thousands or millions of hours of human labor are spent overcoming this non-sensical extra margin? For no reason that is obvious to anyone. If it is a standard marketing tactic to force people to buy the "professional" version, someone could say so. But this built-in extra margin forces me to spend extra time trimming margins everytime I  want to print a document two-up. 

[Stephen35838476t7xn]

Adobe builds extra margin into the document printer. Telling people they can solve this problem by buying the Pro-version is dirty marketing. The Adobe printer should just not have margin, and then let users define their margins in their source document. To the argument that printers must have some non-print margin, my answer is, let the user cope with the problem if the image wants to go to the edge. Forcing extra margin makes work for the user.

I have solved the problem of over-abundant margin (sort of) by using "PDF Arranger", which does much of the work Adobe charges for, for free. It also merges and splits documents, rearranges pages, inserts blank pages, and deletes pages. It does take practice to use efficiently.